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...bipartisan respect that Lugar commands is testimony to his adept stewardship of the Foreign Relations Committee. In less than two years as chairman, the Rhodes scholar and former mayor of Indianapolis has taken firm charge of a committee that in recent years has been rendered virtually impotent by dissension. By working to put together strong majorities on foreign-policy issues, he has brought greater clout to the panel than it has enjoyed in a decade. "He's a good chairman," says the committee's ranking Democrat, Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell. "He's fair and patient and would prefer...
...President, who has persistently sought two-party support for the contras, called the vote a "giant bipartisan effort." Added a White House official: "It's not our biggest win. But it's one of the most satisfying in terms of both content and the fact that we came from behind." Opponents were more pessimistic, predicting that the aid would lead to greater U.S. military involvement in support of a corrupt rebel force. Said Michigan Democrat David Bonior: "The contra program has been rotten from the start...
Attorney General Zamir described the pressure for him to drop his investigation as "intense." Such a bipartisan effort to sidetrack a legal inquiry, which is not subject to Cabinet control, is most unusual; it reflects the government's extreme sensitivity to disclosures about the inner workings of Shin Bet. Nonetheless, support for Zamir and due process of law mounted steadily. Asked former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "Should law bow before power? Should it abdicate?" Warned the Jerusalem Post: "The foundations of the rule of law in Israel may be in grave jeopardy...
...your bill goes to the floor." In his Saturday radio address on the issue, the President declared, "America today stands poised to lift off into a new age of opportunity, powered by one of the most exciting economic changes | of my lifetime. Passed by an overwhelming 20-0 bipartisan vote, this proposal is really radical in scope...
...condemnations of the contra leadership do not please White House officials, his calls for "military pressure" to force the Sandinistas to the bargaining table do. Thus Leiken has been accused of being a mouthpiece for the Reagan Administration. Yet he has condemned Reagan's failure to forge a bipartisan consensus. "I think the Administration has chosen to divide the country rather than unite it by using inflated, hyperbolic rhetoric," he says. "The struggle within the elite in the U.S. has taken precedence over what's going on in Nicaragua...